Fatty Liver

The NY Giants seem to give a lot of CFL bound players try out opportunities but looking over their roster the only Canadian I recognize is Brett Jones. They're the gateway drug of the NFL.

Lapo's wrap on mini-camp. @Darren_Cameron Our offensive mini camp earlier this week was the product of months of planning by possibly our best offseason acquisition in offensive coordinator Paul LaPolice. LaPo lives and breathes this stuff. For the last four months, he has been hunkered down in his office or his quarterback meeting room, with a full-wall white board, scripting his plans for the season. As I’ve mentioned, he and I worked together here from 2010-2012 when he was the Head Coach, so we know each other well and it’s really great to have him back around the building. A few Saturdays ago, I was walking by his office and he called me in. He wanted to show me a play he’d created. Obviously I can’t go into specifics, but as he described it and showed me how it will work, his eyes lit up like that of a mad scientist’s admiring his latest creation. So when he popped by my office the other day, I had to ask him his thoughts on the three-day mini camp. Coach LaPolice is a teacher, and in conversations with players following the camp, they all raved about how he doesn’t stop teaching on the field. He was noticeably more vocal at practice than he was as a Head Coach, but that’s normal and understandable given a Head Coach’s role is different during practice than a coordinator or position coach. So, I asked him, what did you think of the three days? And off he went, eyes lit up. “We worked on motions, we worked on cadences; guys now understand the tempo we want, the speed at which we want to do things. We put in three days of installation, installing parts of the offence. Guys are going to be more prepared offensively than if we hadn’t done this, no question.” The offensive staff had actually carded 105 plays – and with the help of some Bisons players standing in as defenders, Coach LaPolice and his staff were able to run through the 105 plays that were drawn up going against a stand-in front seven defence. “It was a huge help for us, especially for the offensive line and running backs, so they would know who to block in certain scenarios. We had it drawn out so guys could see how the play would develop and where they would need to go, blocking wise.” Coach LaPolice has implanted a communication software program so all of his offensive guys can join a network, and communicate not only to him and the other players, but the coaches can send them all film, plans etc. As he sat in my office, his phone rang. “Oh, Julian Talley just joined the receivers group,” he said. This stuff makes him tick. Here are a few other notes from the offensive boss’s brain following mini camp. On Drew Willy: “Stood out, as we expected. Very good leader and very good quarterback. Solid. Threw the ball well. Short and deep very well. He performed at a high level.” On Ryan Smith and Weston Dressler: “They studied and practiced the way we expected them too. Effort and attitude, they’re professionals and are going to be huge for the younger guys in training camp on offence.” On what fans can expect come main camp: “More of the same. Keep teaching them, but also installing more concepts and then start fine-tuning it all. We want the offence churning full-go come June 24.” On being back on the field coaching after three years off: “It was pretty cool, to be honest. I loved my time at TSN but to be back out there teaching and coaching with Coach O’Shea and the entire staff, it’s what I love to do.”

This is interesting. Wasn't Jeff Hamilton running a blog? ✔ ‎@PaulWiecek Give my colleague @jeffkhamilton a follow. You're going to be seeing a lot of his fine work in the Freep in the days, months and years ahead

You sure didn't. Edit: Fixed it!

Post Media is reporting staggering quarterly losses and print media in general is circling the drain. Most people are not willing to pay for on-line news, the next couple of years will be interesting to see what evolves.

Hopefully BomberTV evolves beyond what it is. Even the slack jaws in Regina live stream daily during TC.

You're right, his name is Veltung. Veltung's replacement may have been at camp as well, we'll see.

I don't believe Stoudermire was even at this camp.

That's an act of desperation that I hope the Bombers don't explore.

Walters should have had the confidence to make this decision at the end of last season imo, Being forthright with vet players who are not in the plans early on is only fair and it gives them a better chance of finding a spot on another team.

Stoudermire was wildly inconsistent last year, no surprise.

I suspect his height did him in, too bad they couldn't keep him around on the PR for eventual Smith or Dressler injuries.

Top 4 at least!!!

The commercials they put out were actually their best product. Loved them.

A D ready to smash in their heads if they touch the ball, that'll help separate the wheat from the corn.

Bartley Kives father or grandfather, no?

http://www.eastoregonian.com/ex-baylor-star-qb-tom-muecke-dead-at-52-eo-ap-webfeeds-news-entertainment1d9d8028420941699a3c35070ce65512

A floating holographic plane, which doubles as a gateway to another dimension and gives the Bombers yet another place to plaster adverts. on.

I'd suggest KBF but he's not "left".

Poor Zach, he's going to have a hard time cracking their D-Line, better opportunity in T.O. or Otwa.

Just curious, who is the source of this information?

Mod Edit: This discussion was split out of the Canadian Politics topic My main complaint with the Teacher's Unions is the number of school days they have arranged not to hold class. Looking at the school calendar just for this semester alone in my school district in BC, they have negotiated 4 day weekends in Feb., Apr. and May, plus a 2 week spring break in late March. I don't have the pre-Christmas calendar available but it was more or less the same for the previous semester. Taking into account the inconvenience, cost and loss of productivity to parents arranging their lives around these "no school days" would reveal a sizeable burden heaped upon the taxpayer above and beyond their negotiated salaries.

The symbol is ready, even if some people are not.

Jim Prentice was available but Kim Campbell was nowhere to be found.

Sooooo.......day one of mini-camp is a wrap and "BOMBERTV" has no footage, no interviews and nothing to report.,,,dum...di...dee....dum... c'mon Cameron, you can do it.